For comparison the lifespan of a camera module was about 24-48 hours for work inside the water of the reactor near the "hot" fuel of the reactor. Fields around there were I believe on the order of 1000-5000 Rad/hr. Looked like the biggest confetti party you ever saw on the image. It was difficult for the encoder modules to keep up as well because they compressed so poorly and the reactor floors were usually hot and humid with the reactors open. I tried to make de-noising algorithms back in the day to help smooth out the noise in the reactor. Really hard to make electronics work in those places. Turns out constant bit flips and ionizing radiation is bad for hardware.
A friend works in Brookhaven Labs where his short and thin stature made him the perfect candidate for working in the tight spaces around the storage ring of RHIC. One of his big jobs is changing out radiation cooked wiring harnesses and electronics assemblies after accelerator runs.
For comparison the lifespan of a camera module was about 24-48 hours for work inside the water of the reactor near the "hot" fuel of the reactor. Fields around there were I believe on the order of 1000-5000 Rad/hr. Looked like the biggest confetti party you ever saw on the image. It was difficult for the encoder modules to keep up as well because they compressed so poorly and the reactor floors were usually hot and humid with the reactors open. I tried to make de-noising algorithms back in the day to help smooth out the noise in the reactor. Really hard to make electronics work in those places. Turns out constant bit flips and ionizing radiation is bad for hardware.
A friend works in Brookhaven Labs where his short and thin stature made him the perfect candidate for working in the tight spaces around the storage ring of RHIC. One of his big jobs is changing out radiation cooked wiring harnesses and electronics assemblies after accelerator runs.
>the lifespan of a camera module was about 24-48 hours for work inside the water of the reactor near the "hot" fuel of the reactor
Wow, you must have needed many shelves full of replacements ready. The whole thing has me curious and full of questions.
How did they even go about replacing them without endangering anyone? And why was a camera needed in a place so close that they would fail so quickly?
But can it withstand Qualcomm's patent lawyers?
I remember ITER designed internal robotic arms to not have electrical components at all, only hydraulics.
You didn't see wifi on the roof